Building Structural Health: Advanced Technologies and Applications in Monitoring and Evaluation
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 33
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nondestructive testing; structural health monitoring; civil structures; ultrasonic; vibration
Interests: guided wave non-destructive evaluation; structural dynamics; structural health monitoring; vibration measurement; system identification; composite materials
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: non-destructive testing; structural health monitoring
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, ‘Building Structural Health’, provides a dedicated platform for disseminating cutting-edge research in structural health monitoring (SHM), nondestructive evaluation (NDE), and smart diagnostic technologies for civil, architectural, and infrastructure systems. Contributions from both academic and industry communities are welcomed.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advanced sensing technologies for SHM;
- NDE methods and field applications;
- Data-driven diagnostics using machine learning, deep learning, and statistical models;
- Digital twins and cyber–physical systems for structural simulation and prediction;
- Damage detection, localization, and quantification techniques;
- Signal processing and feature extraction in time–frequency–wavenumber domains;
- Smart materials and embedded sensors for self-sensing capabilities;
- Integration of SHM with building information modeling (BIM);
- Multiscale modeling and performance-based evaluation;
- Structural behavior under multi-hazard scenarios (e.g., earthquake, wind, fire, or corrosion);
- SHM applications to concrete, steel, composite, and masonry structures;
- Real-time monitoring systems for additive and modular construction;
- Life-cycle assessment and decision-making tools for maintenance and resilience.
More examples of Special Issues of Buildings at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/buildings/special_issues
Dr. Tingyuan Yin
Prof. Dr. Ching-Tai Ng
Dr. Zheng Xu
Dr. Zijie Zeng
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- nondestructive testing
- structural health monitoring
- civil engineering
- smart sensors
- damage detection
- machine learning
- signal processing
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